January 17, 2014

Financial Times

Cuba has relaxed restrictions on the sale of imported cars, but ordinary citizens cannot afford them. In a dusty Havana parking lot, a group of Cubans examine the prices of the modern cars they can now buy from the state for the first time: $263,000 for a 2013 Peugeot saloon that retails in Europe for $30,000, or $20,000 for a 2002 Fiat Uno with over 100,000km on the clock.